Search Engines and Social Media

If you’re new here, you may want to get updates to SEO Noobs by email. Thanks for visiting!Last week I hung a bird feeder in my backyard, but didn’t realize there would be a social media lesson involved.
The first parallel might be obvious. I hung the bird feeder up and hoped a few birds would [...]

Once upon a time there lived three Billy goat brothers. They were considered forward-thinking marketers and each had developed extensive opt-in email lists.
One sunny day the smallest of the three Billy goats set out to market his wares and started crossing a small wooden bridge. When the small goat was half was across, an ugly [...]

A flat tire doesn’t roll very well, although it’s an easy fix. But what do you do when your blog doesn’t seem to be rolling the way you want it to?
Take this quiz to find out which areas of your blog need your attention.
What is your level of fulfillment (not the amount of time you’re [...]

One of the first methods many bloggers approach to monetize their sites is selling space for banner ads. However, studies show visitors have become blind to banner advertisements. In “Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings” Jakob Nielsen reports:
The most prominent result from the new eye-tracking studies is not actually new. We simply confirmed for the [...]

Change is inevitable and at some point you’ll want to make changes beyond your blog theme SEO tweaks . You might want to change the width of a column, the size of a font, a color, or a graphic here and there, but editing WordPress themes can be like working in the dark. WordPress creates [...]

While you’re waiting for your blog to make it big and your monetization plan to really kick in, you might be looking for other ways to earn cash. One skill you’re developing by blogging is very marketable in the online world. Blogging exercises our writing skills.If you can write, you can earn money. Contrary to [...]

Method 1: Make money through paid posts and reviews.
Bloggers make a direct exchange of time for money in the paid-posting model. A product review or related post is written and published by the blogger for a predetermined amount of money, then the blogger moves on to serve another advertiser; usually there are no long term [...]

Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey started blogging to build backlinks for his business website. Since then he has not only become a problogger, but mentors others as well through Blog Mastermind.
He’s a busy guy, so his response to my one-question interview was straight to the point. The question was, “What is the secret to your [...]

Everything might be going along fine, then one morning you wake up and just don’t want to do it anymore. The same blog which used to be your pride and joy, where you watched its statistics improve like an over-protective mother, now feels like just another nagging chore. You would delete the whole thing if [...]

If I asked you to come to Seattle and meet me in a little cafe I like, would you attempt the journey without some sort of map or set of directions? Not if you intended to actually find the place. Sure, you might come to town anyway and take in a few of the obvious [...]